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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      I’m clearly on to something here. Almost ratio’d. I may have discovered the vent in the hustleporn Death Star 😮https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227123633086009344 …

      Venkatesh Rao added,

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      Lifelong learning is bs People who do that are really boring
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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      When @literalbanana tweets shit like this, she gets elevated to sainthood When Taleb says he’d rather live happily in a world he doesn’t understand he gets philosopher of century award Me, I get the hustleporn police writing me tickets for demotivation

      11 replies 0 retweets 103 likes
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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      * composes and deletes tweet about Charlie Munger fans *

      3 replies 0 retweets 27 likes
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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      The real purpose of seeking fuck-you money is to stop learning. Interesting and ironic that many self-professed L3s also seek FU$.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 11
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      I think I could be happy doing absolutely nothing if I got FU$ 🤔 Most people appear to have Plans for the condition

      7 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Delta State Softball

      This is sort of what I mean by being against lifelong learning. What most people actually end up with is a kind of limited life training. A finite bag of tricks that stabilizes by ~35 and backstops you under the mounting pressure of a median life. https://twitter.com/deltastatesb/status/1227352699248750592?s=21 …https://twitter.com/DeltaStateSB/status/1227352699248750592 …

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      “When you’re under pressure you don’t rise to the occasion, you sink to the level of your training.” -Navy Seals saying
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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Life is growing pressure. At a certain point, it collapses your learning curve, and you are a robot governed by your “training” — conditioned already learned adaptive behaviors. Every OODA eventually turns into an O_ODA. It’s a when, not an if.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      Think of it as adaptation reserves. It’s a race to accumulate as much as you can before the pressures of human condition turn you into a non-orienting robot. If you’re lucky, your learning curve cruising altitude will be comfy one with jet stream tailwind. FU$ is a good altitude.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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      If you’re *really* lucky you’ll be able to preserve the illusion that you’re still learning. Nah. If there’s no open-ended adaptation stakes with non-diminishing marginal risk, you’re just chasing pleasant stimulation, not learning.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Typo 3 tweets up: O_DA, not O_ODA A non-orienting OODA loop. Like “learning” to solve sudokus at 70 while comfortably retired is stimulation seeking, not learning in hard sense lifelong learning people act like they’re doing. You could call that lifelong learning but it’s weak.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Only 3 kinds of people believe in lifelong learning Young people who aren’t done learning yet and don’t realize winter’s coming People growing richer (or otherwise succeeding in life-adaptive ways) faster than they’re aging, outrunning the growing pressure okayable boomers™

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        4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227788929086083074?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227788929086083074 …

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          “I’m under a lot of pressure,...selection pressure....” https://twitter.com/joeld/status/1227786827718774784 …
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        5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          This is not growth mindset vs fixed mindset. That theory has weaknesses of its own, but I’m not arguing for the superiority of fixed mindset. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Dweck …

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        6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          My claim is roughly that whether you’re growth or fixed mindset, in the median case, life pressures will balance and eventually overwhelm your motivation to learn. You can only hope you’ll level off in a good place by then. Again, when, not if.

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        7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted Venkatesh Rao

          Joke interlude. This is the only original joke I’ve made up in my life. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227428115967725568?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1227428115967725568 …

          Venkatesh Rao added,

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          Replying to @literalbanana
          Doctor: you only have a few hours to live I’m afraid, how would you like to spend them? Patient: Bring...me...startup...podcast...at...8x...speed
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        8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          This whole thread plus original snark inspired by noticing how little learning the learning LARPers are actually doing. They’re creating an illusion of learning. There are derpy people I know who are the same they were 10 years ago who claim to be “constantly learning”

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        9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Some replies asking me what definition of learning I’m using. You’re welcome to your own, but if you’re not changing in ways that alter your adaptive fit into your environment, you’re not learning by my definition. You’re larping learning or seeking stimulation.

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        10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          It’s odd that it’s okay to be a champion of excellence as “meritorious” or a champion of the left-behind/oppressed as “unfortunate”, but noticing the conditions and adaptations of the vast middle is taboo. Mediocrity, self-delusion, finite learning... modalities of the middle.

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        11. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          Societal grand narratives are driven by a wishful hobbesian false Darwinism. A world of absolute winners and utter losers. No hanging on, treading water, sinking to training, surviving, good-enoughing, wing-and-prayering. The great 1-sigma blindspot in societal self-images.

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        12. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          “Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.” — Edward Abbey. Original context was an environmentalist critique of the logic of capitalism. “Lifelong learning” is actually the same ideology at a personal life level.

          3 replies 1 retweet 22 likes
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        13. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          It’s even a contradiction in terms. Immortalist learning would be a better term. By definition “life” is finite, with non-learning boundary conditions. Lifelong learning implies a sawtooth wave discontinuity at the end of life. As in my joke a few tweets up.

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        14. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Feb 12
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          The arguments against endless-growth capitalism are different (resource limits, mounting externalities) but that too is endless learning. But at least there it’s kinda well-posed since the economy might be immortal for all we know. The market might really be an eternal learner.

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